The Head of the Public Affairs and Protocol Unit of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Fabian Benjamin, has said the examination body is currently reviewing the details of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted so far.
Mr Benjamin said as soon as all ‘Ts’ are crossed and ‘Is’ dotted, results of candidates who have sat their papers since the examination kicked off on Tuesday will be released.
Mr Benjamin said this on Thursday after observing the ongoing examination in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“We are in a meeting now. We are looking at the results and by the grace of God, very soon we will release the first batch of results,” he said.
Commends JAMB
Meanwhile, the JAMB official also described the conduct of this year’s examination as ‘one of the best’ the examination body has conducted in recent times.
Mr Benjamin said this in spite of the hitches recorded at the commencement of the examination nationwide on Tuesday. The development, which JAMB noted was observed across about 100 computer-based test centres, led to rescheduling of the examination for the affected candidates.
He said: “This is one of the best examinations we’ve had over a period of time. I know that many will want to contest that fact because of what happened on Tuesday. But if you have been in the system and followed our exercise over a period of time you will know that the first exams are always turbulent and then as we progress, we stabilise and we continue the exercise.”
“Only 6% candidates experienced hitches”
Mr Benjamin said out of the 947,000 candidates who had taken the test since Tuesday only 64,000 have so far experienced hitches “and the board has rescheduled their tests for other sessions.”
Please for those that have hitch on the exam day, how are they going to know the new exam day
Good evening, i don’t know if this complain will get to jamb but on Thursday was suppose to be my exam day but I and some other candidates were sent out of the hall and our slip taken from us. We were told that jamb will send a text to us to let us know when to reprint a new slip comprising of a new date, time and centre but till as of the time I’m typing this we’ve gotten nothing from jamb so my question is the candidates that were unable to sit for the exam will they be rescheduled or they should wait till next year??
Results shouldn’t be released till all that didn’t write on Tuesday and Wednesday mostly in ibusa, delta state write the exam, how can you say hitch is 6% , who caused it
My daughter Kausarat OLADUNNI ADEYEMI. Was part of the student that wrote Jamb on the first day of the hitches. She have not been rescheduled till today.
We need the results at earnest
We can wait to see it
Wow
What about those you rescheduled without a proper notification that eventually missed d exam?
Why are we so daft in this country, that we keep repeating mistakes our predecessors made?
You suddenly scattered d whole plan at d detriment of these innocent students.
Thunder of God awaits you all.
Good one please I need my results